Ancient cultures believed a food's appearance revealed what it healed. Walnuts look like brains and support brain health. Beets are red like blood. The five flavors each nourish different organs.
Here's what the ancient physicians recommended. They said, okay, what the food looks like, if the food looks like a body part, it supports that. What is the food's flavor as well? And what's the food's color? And they would look at those three things and say, that's how you know it. So for instance, a walnut looks like your brain. In fact, you crack it open, it has two hemispheres. We know today that walnuts are loaded with choline and vitamin E and some omega-3 fats, so they're good for the brain. A coconut as well looks like your head. Coconut has all these medium chain triglycerides, which are good for your brain and actually a water inside that almost looks like cerebral spinal fluid that's actually good for your body's fluid and systems. We've got beets that actually look like blood when you're cutting them. And they have known to increase nitric oxide in the body and improve your cardiovascular health. Celery looks like your bones. celery is probably the most alkaline vegetable. And so it actually supports your bones in especially supporting vitamin K and calcium levels. And then I could keep going on a few others. It's so fascinating. Yeah, Rishi mushrooms look identical to your kidneys and adrenal glands. So do kidney beans, you know, onions are amazing for your cells. Those are loaded with quercetin and things that actually support mitochondrial function, all kinds of things. So, you know, one of the things I go through that in the whole book, I have these, you know, big pictures and graphs going through. Here's all of those foods, so we know that. And then flavors, five flavors support five different, what they considered organ systems that work together. So sour foods really activate and support liver detoxification, bitter really affects the heart and the blood, you've got umami, which affects the lungs and colon, you've got sweet, which is more the pancreas and stomach, the upper GI, and then you've got salty, which is your kidneys and your adrenals. and then certain foods like green is very good for liver gallbladder. But anyways, that's how the ancient is new. And I really believe that God created, you know, our food here. I don't think he made it real complicated like, Hey, I'm gonna make it really hard for them to figure out what to eat. I think some of the stuff, I'm not saying everything is simple, but I think some of the times using food as medicine isn't really complex if we are, you know, able to to start thinking and learning about some of these things.
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